As maintained by the Ministry of Justice, this ordinance aims to “simplify and make more flexible” communications and the exchange of information between the courts, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and registration services, namely by the courts sending requests for registrations, contributing to the goals set in the Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência (PRR), with reference to the availability of the new Plataforma Integrada de Servços para Empresas-Empresa 2.0.

“This will allow significant savings for the court secretariats, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and Notaries”, states the ordinance signed by the Secretary of State for Justice, Pedro Tavares.

The system will facilitate the exchange of information and the execution of acts in a completely dematerialised way, electronically, dispensing with any manual activity of digitalisation or the processing of documentation between courts, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, and registration.

The Ministry of Justice also recalled that interoperability between the information systems of public institutions is “one of the most appropriate tools to guarantee both the reductions of burdens for individuals and companies”, thus complying with “the principle of good administration, in its aspect of efficiency, which presupposes the exemption from delivery of documentation that is already in the possession of public institutions, or the better management of human and material resources of the justice system”.

In drafting this diploma, the Superior Judiciary Council, the Superior Council of Administrative and Tax Courts, the Attorney General’s Office, the National Data Protection Commission, the Bar Association, Solicitors, and Execution Agents were consulted.